BONUS Post #48 - Your World in CINEMA
What you're seeing in these generations is the stunning results of @SXCD2719's update of their Checkpoint Merge, Cinema, with a 2.0 release dubbed CinemaScope. The original Cinema merge became available not all that long ago (October 27th, 2025; literally a mere one month ago!), and in that short month SXCD2719 has done incredible work to improve upon their already impressive Checkpoint. If you got a chance to do a few generations with the original this past month, you know already that the model was a fantastic Checkpoint for generating dense, vivid images, or images with crisp life that spills beyond the subject. And this upgrade makes a momentous jump in advancing all the qualities the original was already great at.
‘Cinema’ winds up being such an apt name: the beauty of really finely-crafted cinema—of masterpiece films—is that they fill your whole eye. The picture pours into you, filling your being. They become portals absorbing you into a whole distant world. The details here, easily brought out by the Checkpoint's effortless use of lighting, are fine, vast, and immersive. And it still retains the strong prompt adherence, making it a model that easy to partner up with because you can be quick to learn its nuances.
I want to point out, just in case you didn't pick up on it, that all of these generations in this post are simple Checkpoint generations: no LoRAs, no extra models, no embeddings, no nothing. Just CINEMA. And these were done while barely scratching the surface. They're just my few hours of playing around with it.
Definitely go to SXCD2719's page and check out the model's two showcase posts, the first here and the second here, for even more diverse examples of Cinema's abilities. I'm incredibly honored that I was allowed to play with the model a little early, and a few generations I had made were used in the first showcase post. I'm eternally grateful for the opportunity—it's not lost on me what a blessed thing it is to be trusted with someone's hard work in that way.
As soon as this Checkpoint clears auction, head to the model page and start generating! My friends, let's find out together everything that this model can do. Let's build that bridge to a wonderful, vibrant place, where stories become real. All that's needed is your imagination. We need you.
The first six images are hi-res, and go into the Hi-Res Collection, The last two are full 1440p desktop backgrounds, and go into the Desktop Background Collection.
Take care, my friends. You'll be seeing more of this model from me in the future.